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In the year 496 Remigius, the Archbishop of Reims, baptised Clovis I. Clovis, the first king to unite all the Franks under one ruler, proclaimed Catholicism as the state religion. The King of France was subsequently known as "His Most Christian Majesty" and France itself was called "the eldest daughter of the Church".

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